Zoran Obradovic’s Lab

Principal Investigator

ZORAN OBRADOVIC

Professor and Director

zoran.obradovic AT temple DOT edu

Current Visiting Scholars

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  Daniel Lee

  tur95049 AT temple DOT edu

  M.S. Student

• MA

  Murathan Akman

  tuu77726 AT temple DOT edu

  M.S. Student

Graduated PhD Students

• Abdulrahman Alharbi

  • Dissertation: “AI-Enabled Autonomous Knowledge Extraction from Large-Scale Textual Data,” Summer 2026.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.

• Shelly Gupta

  • Dissertation: “Predictive Modeling using Heterogeneous Data Sources,” Summer 2026.
  • First Ph.D. position: Data Scientist, Hyatt.

• William Power

  • Dissertation: “Towards Understanding Relationships within a Large Corpus of Social Content,” Summer 2026.
  • First Ph.D. position: AI Consultant, Universal Health Services.

• Jovan Andjelkovic

  • Dissertation: “Data Representation in High-Dimensional and Complex Data: Predictive Modeling in Healthcare and Social Media,” Spring 2026.
  • First Ph.D. position: Lead Research Scientist, Epsilon.

• Nouf Albarakati

  • Dissertation: “Joint Clustering of Hospitals Based on Their Admission Behavior for Different Diseases Using Network of Networks Data Model,” Fall 2025.
  • First Ph.D. position: Senior Data Scientist at Cadent (AdTech company), Philadelphia, PA.

• Hussain Otudi

  • Dissertation: “Modeling Infrequent Events by Integrating Noisy Data from Multiple Sources and Applying Machine Learning to Classify and Predict Disruptions,” Spring 2025.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.

• Rafaa S Aljurbua

  • Dissertation: “Graph-Based Approach: Bridging Insights from Structured and Unstructured Data,” Spring 2025.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.

• Ameen Abdel Hai

  • Dissertation: “Advanced Transfer Learning in Domains with Low-Quality Temporal Data and Scarce Labels,” Fall 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Machine Learning Scientist, Geico, Chevy Chase, MD.

• Athanasia Polychronopoulou

  • Dissertation: “Exploring Multiplex Networks,” Fall 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Instructor, Temple University.

• Mohammad Alqudah

  • Dissertation: “Learning from Multi-Modal Spatiotemporal Data: Machine Learning Approaches to Advance Resilience in Smart Grids,” Fall 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Best Buy, Minneapolis, MN.

• Jumanah Alshehri

  • Dissertation: “Jointly Mining News and User-Generated Content: Machine Learning, Information and Social Network Perspective,” Spring 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Instructor, Temple University.

• Marija Stanojevic

  • Dissertation: “Domain Adaptation Applications to Complex High-Dimensional Target Data,” Spring 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Applied Machine Learning Researcher, Winterlight Labs, Toronto, Canada.

• Nima Asadi

  • Dissertation: “Algorithms for Pattern Discovery in Evolutionary Networks with Applications in Brain Imaging Data,” Temple University, Fall 2022.
  • First Ph.D. position: Instructor, Univ. Maryland.

• Branimir Ljubic

  • Dissertation: “Advanced Machine Learning Models in Prediction of Medical Conditions,” Temple University, Spring 2021.
  • First Ph.D. position: Senior Scientist Research Computing, Clinical informatics, Office of Advanced Research Computing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

• Martin Pavlovski

  • Dissertation: “Learning from Structured Data: Scalability, Stability and Temporal Awareness,” Temple University, Spring 2021.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.

• Jesse Glass

  • Dissertation: “An Efficient Ranking and Classification Method for Linear Functions, Kernel Functions, Decision Trees, and Ensemble Methods,” Temple University, Spring 2020.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, IQVIA Inc.

• Shoumik Roychoudhury

  • Dissertation: “Leveraging Temporal Subsequences for Time-Series Classification,” Temple University, Spring 2020.
  • First Ph.D. position: Senior Data Scientist, Kulicke & Soffa.

• Chao Han

  • Dissertation: “On the Predictive Modeling of Attributed Graphs,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2019.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Facebook.

• Xi Hang Cao

  • Dissertation: “On Leveraging Representational Learning Techniques for Data Analytics in Biomedical,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2019.
  • First Ph.D. position: Lead Data Scientist, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), LLC.

• Djordje Gligorijevic

  • Dissertation: “Predictive Uncertainty Quantification and Explainable Machine Learning in Healthcare,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2018.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.

• Ivan Stojkovic

  • Dissertation: “Functional Norm regularization for Margin-Based ranking on temporal Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2018.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.

• Jelena Gligorijevic

  • Dissertation: “Context-Aware Learning from Partial Observations,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2018.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.

• Debasish Das

  • Dissertation: “Bayesian Sparse Regression with Aplication to Data-driven Understanding of Climate,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2015.
  • First Ph.D. position: Data Scientist, Verizon Big Data Analytics.

• George Matthew

  • Dissertation: “A Perturbative Decision Making Framework for Distributed Sensitive Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2014.
  • First Ph.D. position: Staff Scientist (Full), Lincoln Laboratories, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Mohamed Ghalwash

  • Dissertation: “Interpretable Early Classification of Multivariate Time Series,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2013.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Center for Data Analytics and BioMedical Informatics, Temple University, Philadelphia.

• Qiang Lou

  • Dissertation: “Learning from Incomplete High-dimensional Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Applied Researcher, Microsoft.

• Vladimir Ouzienko

  • Dissertation: “Log Linear Models for Prediction and Analysis of Networks,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Product Lead with Diio LLC – business intelligence provider for aviation industry.

• Kosta Ristovski

  • Dissertation: “Knowledge discovery through probabilistic models,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Center for Data Analytics and BioMedical Informatics, Temple University, Philadelphia.

• Ping Zhang

  • Dissertation: “Learning from Multiple Data Sources,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights.

• Vladan Radosavljevic

  • Dissertation: “Gaussian Conditional Random Fields for Regression in Remote Sensing,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2011.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Center for Data Analytics and BioMedical Informatics, Temple University, Philadelphia.

• Uros Midic

  • Dissertation: “Genome-wide prediction of intrinsic disorder; sequence alignment of intrinsically disordered proteins,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2011.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Fels Institute for Cancer Research & Molecular Biology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

• Qifang Xu

  • Dissertation: “Statistical Analysis of Biological Interactions of Homologous Proteins,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2008.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Fox Chase Cancer Institute, Philadelphia.

• Michael Hongbo Xie

  • Dissertation: “Functional Characterization of Large Scale Biological Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2007.
  • First Ph.D. position: Bioinformatics Specialist, IDF Research Department of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

• Bo Han

  • Dissertation: “Knowledge Discovery by Fusion of Information,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2007.

• Kang Peng

  • Dissertation: “Learning from Protein Structure Related Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2006.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, School of Informatics, Indiana University.

• Predrag Radivojac

  • Dissertation: “Classification and Knowledge Discovery in Protein Databases,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2003.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, School of Medicine, Indiana University.

• Dragoljub Pokrajac

  • Dissertation: “Knowledge Discovery in Spatial-Temporal Databases,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2002.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dpt., Delaware State University.

• Aleksandar Lazarevic

  • Dissertation: “Distributed Inductive Learning for Time/Space Data Analysis,” Computerand Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2001.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Computer Science Dpt., University of Minnesota.

• Slobodan Vucetic

  • Dissertation: “On-line Systems for Non-stationary Data Analysis and Modeling,” Electrical Engineering Ph.D., WSU, Summer 2001.
  • First Ph.D. position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Information Sciences and technology and Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

• Pedro Romero

  • Dissertation: “Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Protein Databases,” Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Spring 1999.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Laboratories, Stanford Research Institute International, Menlo Park, CA.

• Radu Drossu

  • Dissertation: “Efficient Design of Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction,” Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1997.
  • First Ph.D. position: Staff Scientist, Financial Engineering Group, HNC Software Inc., San Diego, CA.

• Tim Chenoweth

  • Dissertation: “A Neural Network Based System for Predicting Future Returns for the S&P 500 Stock Index,” Interdisciplinary Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1996.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Accountancy, Arizona State University.

• Srdjan Milenkovic

  • Dissertation: “Higher-Order Dynamic Learning Through Nondeterministic Global Optimization,” Electrical Eng. Ph.D., University of Nis, Yugoslavia, co-advised with Prof. Vanco Litovski from Univ. of Nis, Summer 1996.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Microelectronics Centre, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom.

• Justin Fletcher

  • Dissertation: “A Constructive Approach to Hybrid Architectures for Machine Learning,” Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1994.
  • First Ph.D. position: Principal Engineer, Itron Corp., Spokane, WA.